Wednesday, December 29, 2010

damn you Gay UPS truck, how dare you come back into my life...

Monkey’s office is all pretty much working from home this week or on vacation.


One of our neighbors came by the house while she was there. While we consider ourselves good neighbors and wave and are friendly and helpful to everyone. That being said we do tend to keep to ourselves a bit. The neighbors often refer to us as the “crazy bike people” who have “like 30 people show up at 8 in the morning, and by noon there’s not a soul to be seen.” “it’s like a damn bike flash mob or something…”

The woman that lives to the right of us is named Bonnie, the woman to the left of us is named Paula.

Tuesday, Paula came to the house while I was talking to Diane on the phone.

The Dogs are going nuts in the background.
Fatme: “what’s going on ?”

Monk: “someone is here.”

Fatme: “who?”

Monk: “ I think it’s the lady next door…”

Fatme: “ Which one Bonnie or Paula?”

Monk: “to the left I can’t remember her name?”

The dogs are still going nuts

Fatme: “you mean Paula?”

Monk: “ do you know her name? I really can’t hear you that well”
             “RILEY !! LAYLA!!! SHUP UP!!”

Fatme: “her name is Paula.”

Monk: “shit I gotta go, I hope everything is alright, wish I remembered her name…”

Fatme: “love you babe, her name is Paula goodbye”

10 minutes later.

The dogs are totally silent.

Fatme: “ so, is everything cool with Paula? ”

Monk: “ Paula- huh, that’s her name. Yeah everything is cool, she was just letting us know
              That we lost some shingles off the roof…”

yeah, that's bummer.

My mountain bike is being serviced by the rebel alliance, having a new flux capacitor put on and a midichlorian detector added. I should totally be ready for some fun winter mtb rides.

As a result I had to pull out the old Gay UPS from the basement. The truth is I have been a recovered single speeder for three and a half years. I wouldn't call tonight a full on relapse, but I didn't want to love it, I didn't want the bike to feel as good and natural as it did...

I should have changed my stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second, you'd be back to bother me


Fucking bastard. That bike is awesome.



Great ride tonight snow trails kept me on the edge of destruction all night. The boys were kind enough to not drop me. Dennisbike set a tempo was very smooth...  Steve, Erick, Aaron, Benny da Jewlar, and Johnny W rounded out a nice group. A great way to end a week...


happy new years folks.


stay safe. if you're drinking don't drive, and if you're driving, don't drink


respect
fatmarc

6 comments:

Jim said...

Been riding my rigid single at Patapsicko because of the snow conditions. Maybe I gots more skill than before, or maybe less brain cells, but I'm having more fun on it than ever. Riding it at speed down hills and hopping off dropoffs, doing a little jump and landing the two wheels back on the trail in sync with arms and legs providing the feather-soft suspension action, is an amazing feeling.

Plus it definitely climbs better and makes me 15% cooler just by owning a singlespeed.

Anonymous said...

The only way to truly stop being a singlespeeder is to get rid of the singlespeed . . . it's super addictive.

Chris said...

if you really want to get stoopid, bolt a cog on and run that thing fixed. Makes no sense at all, but so much fun.

denS said...

Dennisbike set a pace Dennis could stay with. It was nice,

denS

thekettleblackest said...

You can store the GUPST at my place in order to eliminate further temptation. My GUSS could use the company...

Judi said...

why not ride the SS?

i hope diane gets to start working from home more and more. it's much better than the lame office environment bullshit.